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Bernice Gordon
Bernice Gordon

New York Times, Friday, April 20, 1990

53-Down : Clair de ___

Author:
Bernice Gordon
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.16, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 292 (avg 1.53)
Open Squares: 77, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Bernice Gordon has 126 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 21 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1990, The New York TimesNo. 14,773
Across
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Car for a V.I.P. : LIMO
5
Deride : SCOFF
10
"Exodus" author : URIS
14
Tel ___ : AVIV
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Garson film role : CURIE
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Faldo or Price of the P.G.A. : NICK
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Distributed in a balanced way : PRORATED
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Wants : NEEDS
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Parts of the Morse code : DITS
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Tight or loose followers : ENDS
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Word before beloved : DEARLY
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Praise too highly : OVERSELL
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Earthenware dish : OLLA
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Lake in Finland, to Swedes : ENARE
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Take to court : SUE
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Numerical ending : ETH
40
Evidence : SIGNS
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Unit in verse : MORA
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Spicy : SEASONED
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Apiarist, e.g. : KEEPER
46
"___ she blows!" : THAR
47
H.H.H.'s state : MINN
48
Cause of pool problems : ALGAE
51
How trustworthy people act : RELIABLY
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Of wrath: Lat. : IRAE
59
Measure in Menton : LITRE
60
Leapin' ___ (comics car) : LENA
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Does farm work : SOWS
62
Emotion of a slave named Scott? : DREAD
63
Container for water : EWER
Down
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Native of the Kola Peninsula : LAPP
2
Composer Novello : IVOR
3
Grain sorghum : MILO
4
Cause one's check to bounce : OVERDRAW
5
Nickname for a Glaswegian : SCOTTY
6
Raises to the third power : CUBES
7
Toward the mouth : ORAD
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Pinnule : FIN
9
G-man : FED
10
Save : UNLESS
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Ruffle one's feathers : RILE
12
How caviar is served : ICED
13
"The ___ the limit" : SKYS
18
Parachute, with "out" : BAIL
19
A brother-in-law of Diana : ANDREW
23
George Eliot's real surname : EVANS
24
Dork : NERD
25
Prominent D.C. couple : DOLES
26
Put on cloud nine : ELATE
27
Omega's opposite : ALPHA
28
___ off (sporadically) : ONAND
29
Bar, in law : ESTOP
30
Filthy item? : LUCRE
31
"Vilia" composer : LEHAR
33
Lawn tool : EDGER
36
Line on a weather map : ISOHEL
37
Writer-director Wertmüller : LINA
38
Obedient : AMENABLE
43
Periods of development : STAGES
44
Placed in an oast : KILNED
45
Author Bagnold : ENID
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Stiller's partner : MEARA
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Sale stipulation : ASIS
49
Monk parrot : LORO
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Erode : GNAW
51
Network of nerves : RETE
52
Tooted : BLEW
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Clair de ___ : LUNE
54
Time span : YEAR
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Used : OLD
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Man, to Marcus : VIR

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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